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Recently an output of netstat -a gave an output of one established ftp connection. This is weird because I do not have any ftp software installed and never use it. I have no reason to.

The weirder part is that the connection persisted after closing down my internet connection. I could not kill the pid nor would it go away. I had to restart my system to get rid of it.

Whats up with that??? Sound fishy to anyone? Could this be evidence of SSH tunneling or similar? I feel confident I wiped out any malware I had but my network I am not in love with. I suspect there is something lurking someplace I cannot see but not 100% on that. My suspicion comes from, among other things, the fact that if ALL computers in the house are completely off and the router is rebooted as soon as it's back online its flashing like fucking mad with wireless internet connectivity. There is also a wireless connection always present, with no computers running. Weird?
Is your WIFI protected with a WEP key?
What I have recommended in the past is to enable MAC filtering on your wireless router. It gives you an added layer of security.
My wifi? Do you mean the wifi on my mac or do you mean my home router?

I wanted to set up MAC filtering but it's tough as my family aren't the most tech savvy and getting their machines mac addresses is a pain. I can do it, never felt the need. If you think it matters I will do it. Also won't mac spoofing negate the security in the first place?

I forgot to mention I have all sharing services turned off, all plist files adjusted so that none of the sharing programs run at launch, no startup items whatsoever, my loginwindow plist is clean, my SSHD script altered for no root login, no agent forwarding all that. I have deleted telnet and remote desktop software, really anything and everything I can think of that might give connectivity I have done my best to alter in favor of total lockdown. Still not sure though. I get the feeling it's not enough..Recently did a full wipe of my hard drive, booted from usb and wiped the main drive clean including free space but still..